Oppenheimer,
Bhagavad-Gita
- "If the radiance of a thousand suns were to burst into the sky, that
would
be like the splendor of the Mighty One... I am become Death, the shatterer of
worlds."

"Now we are all
sons of bitches."

Groves, "I always
considered it my duty to recommend that the bomb be dropped.After all, great numbers of our boys
were dying every day at that time in war against the Japanese.Scientists could afford to be soft, but
they weren't the ones who had friends & relatives in field."

"Truman did not so
much say 'yes' as not say 'no'.It
would have taken lot of nerve to say 'no' at that time."

August 6, 1945, Enola
Gay, "Little Boy", Hiroshima.

"elongated trash
can with fins"

levelled almost five square miles, killing almost 100,000
immediately - later tens of thousands more.

August 8, "Fat
Man", Nagasaki.

"We were sitting on
the pier in Seattle sharpening our bayonets when Harry Truman dropped that
beautiful bomb - the greatest thing that ever happened."

General Dwight D.
Eisenhower,
"It wasn't necessary to hit them with that awful thing."